Dating your professor

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes At UVU, a student tried to have a relationship with their current professor. The student brought the teacher gifts, visited the professor’s office, and even called the professor’s home and talked to his wife in attempts to reach him. The teacher immediately reported this situation to his department chair. After the school reviewed the situation, […]

2012 blues

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 4 minutes Sometime during the break I decided that I might want to purchase a gun. Some variety of pump action 12-gauge mangler, the kind that I would clean in the living room if I had a daughter and her boyfriend were coming to dinner for the first time.   I’m not certain where this sudden yen […]

The great conference shuffle

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s been easy to look with envy at neighboring universities in regards to NCAA status. In one year we’ve seen:   Utah move to the PAC-12 BYU’s earn its own time slot on ESPN, Utah State refuse to help UVU in its bid for an invite to the Western Athletic Conference   When the dust […]

Annual aviation tour: The FedEx experience

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes During the fall semester, 14 students went to Memphis Tennessee to take the annual tour of the FedEx Headquarters. To anyone who has wondered what really goes into preparing aviation students for the real world, the annual tour of the aviation industry organized by the Aviation Department may be of interest.   Josh Lapray a […]

To the person(s) that broke into my car

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Dear window-smashing villain(s),   Hi it’s me, Jeff, the guy whose stuff you stole two weeks before Christmas. Just wanted to say hello and introduce myself, since I guess you didn’t feel like sticking around after breaking my window and taking all that cool stuff from my car. Things are OK for me, I’m just […]

Student thanks taxpayers for keeping her alive

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes To read the article from the Tampa Bay Times, visit http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/thank-you-us-taxpayers/1205370   Sitting on the floor of her furnished living room, Keira Sloan Scholz stacks blocks with her  son. As soon as she builds a tower, her son knocks it down with his chubby hand, squealing with laughter. The gregarious little boy is a smaller, […]

Title IX

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes If asked about Title IX, just about any college student would probably say it has to deal with equality for both men and women in college sports.   The general understanding for most people is that Title IX is a law that tells us that within college sports there must be an equal amount of […]

Living in the cone zone

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: < 1 minute Like it or not, Old Man Winter has decided to stay his entrance this year. We don’t know the reason for this delay, but we do know that UDOT crews are taking full advantage of it. The I-15 CORE project is moving along swiftly, as are other projects close to home.   While traffic through […]

Wrestling looks for repeat win over Boise State

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Monte Schmalhaus joked he would prefer not to remember the Wolverines’ 2010 dual against Boise State. The then-freshman was matched against No. 1 nationally ranked Kirk Smith, who bolstered his undefeated record at Schmalhaus’ expense.   The team, however, pulled off a major upset over the No. 8 Broncos, holding on for a 22-20 victory. […]

Wolverines seeking consistency, confidence

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sammie Jensen may need to remind herself every now and again she hasn’t changed teams. Seeing nine different teammates in the starting lineup will do that.   The roster shuffling has been necessary, as the Wolverines have seen one player perform well one night only to disappear the next. True freshman Taylor Huber started her […]